Just sharing this really well produced video on Linux’s public perception (since this channel has suprisingly not a lot of subscribers)

  • TechNom (nobody)@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    Can you tell us what you find difficult while using Linux? (After the installation).

    PS: Not a rhetoric. Just trying to understand the friction.

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      7 months ago

      Just annoying things like missing video codecs in fedora. Why the heck do I have to install something just to watch a video online?! Or the fingerprint reader in Ubuntu only works for the one session, after that it forgets all my prints again. Or using proton and missing dx11 drivers in pop os, I know they are crappy Microsoft software, but are required for some games. Or that Ableton, fusion360, affinity are not available for Linux. I know it’s not Linux fault, we need big companies to invest in Linux in order for it to gain more traction. Or all the package managers. Which should I use? Snap comes with Ubuntu but people say it’s bad and flat pack is better. Or that there is no sound output selection or mixer in the gnome top bar, I need to install an gnome addon for that. There are just little things compared to Mac or windows that Linux is missing or has difficulty with. Don’t get me wrong, I use Linux full time on my laptop now and try to move to Linux on my desktop as well. Those are just things that tech savvy people would struggle with, and I can’t blame them form calling Linux difficult then

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        7 months ago

        Why the heck do I have to install something just to watch a video online?

        MPEG-LA licensing or the legal hell of USA-based organisations is a risk to small projects like Fedora, so where possible they cut the risk and lay it on users decision to use propriatory licenses.

        At least that is how I understood it. I don’t know how Arch Linux and Debian (i.e. pacman and APT) don’t have that problem.

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          7 months ago

          Uugh I’m so sick of proprietory licenses and software… all this licensing shit… I’m just fed up

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            6 months ago

            Part of the problem also has to do with corporate-backed distros. Fully community-driven distros don’t suffer from that nearly as much, if at all.

            I like Fedora, but stuff like that makes me worry about how it’s going to be as time goes on.

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        6 months ago

        This is why I’d steer clear from Fedora. Even as an experienced user, it’s quite a pain to setup.

        I’d go with Linux Mint instead.